Jason Gardner

Jason Gardner tells stories, using photography and video within the framework of Visual Anthropology. He is passionate about music, culture, totems, and ritual, and how they impact how a society expresses itself.  Jason published A Flower in the Mouth, a book of photography and writing about the culture, music and rituals of Carnaval in Pernambuco, Brazil. Jason has also branched out to photograph other manifestations of this festival in Dunkerque, France; Guinea-Bissau; Sardinia; Trinidad; Bahamas; New Orleans; and Cajun country in Louisiana.